1/29/2015STScI-2015-042.Hubble Spies a Loopy Galaxy
At first glance, galaxy NGC 7714 resembles a partial golden ring from an amusement park ride. This unusual structure is a river of Sun-like stars... (More)

2013

11/21/2013STScI-2013-534.Infant Galaxies Merging Near 'Cosmic Dawn'
Astronomers using the combined power of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have discovered a far-flung... (More)

6/20/2013STScI-2013-235.Colliding Galaxy Pair Takes Flight
What looks like a celestial hummingbird is really the result of a collision between a spiral and an elliptical galaxy at a whopping 326 million light- years away. (More)

9/6/2012STScI-2012-387.Odd Galaxy Couple on Space Voyage
Two very different galaxies drift through space together in this image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The peculiar galaxy pair is called Arp 116. Arp 116 is composed... (More)

2011

10/27/2011STScI-2011-3010.Astronomers Pin Down Galaxy Collision Rate
A new analysis of Hubble surveys, including the All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS), the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS), and the Great Observatories... (More)

2010

8/5/2010STScI-2010-2512.A Galactic Spectacle
A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light-years from Earth, are shown in this composite... (More)

2009

9/9/2009STScI-2009-2514.Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. (More)

3/3/2009STScI-2009-1016.Trio of Galaxies Mix It Up
Though they are the largest and most widely scattered objects in the universe, galaxies do go bump in the night. The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed many pairs of galaxies... (More)

2008

10/30/2008STScI-2008-3717.Hubble Scores a Perfect Ten
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business. Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera... (More)

4/24/2008STScI-2008-1618.Cosmic Collisions Galore!
Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary, and majestic island worlds of glittering stars. But galaxies have a dynamical side. They have close encounters that sometimes... (More)

2006

10/16/2006STScI-2006-4620.Super Star Clusters in the Antennae Galaxies
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions... (More)

10/12/2006STScI-2006-4521.Hubble Captures Galaxy in the Making
Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have provided a dramatic glimpse of a large and massive galaxy under assembly by the merging of smaller, lighter galaxies. Astrophysicists... (More)

2004

4/22/2004STScI-2004-1523.The Lure of the Rings
Resembling a diamond-encrusted bracelet, a ring of brilliant blue star clusters wraps around the yellowish nucleus of what was once a normal spiral... (More)

2000

11/2/2000STScI-2000-3431.A Bird's Eye View of a Galaxy Collision
What appears as a bird's head, leaning over to snatch up a tasty meal, is a striking example of a galaxy collision in NGC 6745. The "bird" is a large spiral galaxy... (More)

6/9/1997STScI-1997-1737.A Collision In The Heart Of A Galaxy
The Hubble telescope's infrared camera has uncovered a collision between two spiral galaxies in the heart of the peculiar galaxy called Arp 220. The collision... (More)

1995

11/29/1995STScI-1995-4939.HST's Greatest Hits 1990-1995
Hubble Space Telescope evokes a new sense of awe and wonder about the infinite richness of our universe in dramatic, unprecedented pictures of celestial objects. Like a traveler sharing... (More)